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To: Ira_Louvin

Without origins, there is no life.

Science may be able to explain variation within species and natural selection, Even creationist websites don’t deny those aspects of the ToE (if you’d ever bothered to read some of the articles, you’d have found that out) but there is NO reasonable explanation for origins.

I know what evos keep saying about them being separate, but it is unreasonable. The distinction is simply a break in the continuum from the initial formation of simple chemicals to the most complex to the point of what we define as life, that is just for the convenience of giving some sort of credibility to the ToE. Since spontaneous generation has been disproved, that complication has to, and had to, be removed from the ToE.

You can’t logically and honestly keep saying that you look at how life evolved from one common ancestor and then just stop cold when you get to the first one and pretend that it’s irrelevant as to where that came from. If it’s relevant where everything else came from, it’s reasonable to ask where the first came from.

What were the common ancestors of the bacteria and algae? From what did they evolve?

The long and short of it is, that there is simply no reasonable explanation that science can give for the formation of life at all, whatever they think that they can explain about what may or may not have happened after that.

Plus, origins not being part of the ToE is not a universally held view outside of FR, and that has been rehashed many times already.


113 posted on 12/02/2009 7:14:43 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

You are still presenting an argument from personal incredulity and it still fails.

Your straw man still does not change the fact that Darwin was not trying to explain the origins of life. Just because it is too difficult for you to understand does not prove that God did it.

Stating that we do not understand the origin of life does not invalidate the evolutionary theory there are mountains of evidence much of which you accept showing how life has changed since its inception.

While the origins of life are a question of interest to evolutionary biologist and frequently studied in conjunction with researchers from other fields such as geochemistry and organic chemistry, the core of evolutionary theory itself does not rest on a foundation that requires any knowledge about the origins of life on earth. It is primarily concerned with the change and diversification of life after the origins of the earliest living things –

Here is a useful link on your question about the bacteria and algae

http://4e.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=1&id=399


115 posted on 12/02/2009 8:25:17 PM PST by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, Theres a higher power ,They need not fear the works of men.)
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